It must be very easy being a SOLIDWORKS Product Development Manager nowadays. The users are pretty much doing your job.

It is that time of the year again, when all SOLIDWORKS users are invited to vote for the Top 10 Ideas to be revealed next month at SOLIDWORKS World.

This year the SOLIDWORKS Community was very busy brainstorming and submitting ideas for improving our beloved CAD software. There were almost 1000 ideas submitted and, even more impressive, most of them have many comments and suggestions for clarifying the scope and the implementation workflow.

This is huge! At this time if you want to select all the holes in a face for Convert or Offset Entities you have to work hard.

Richard Laflamme and I found a few workarounds for speeding this process (to be demonstrated at SolidWorks World next month during the 12 Different Ways to Create Inter-Part Relations in SOLIDWORKS 2015 presentation - 10:30 AM on February 11th), but adding this functionality would be so much faster and more elegant.

This is one of the most helpful ideas for collaboration between companies I have ever seen. Not only you can protect intellectual property this way, but your customer would still have all the relevant data needed to integrate your components in their assemblies.

And this is the best idea that has not been submitted this year for the SWW 2015 Top Ten:

The mating between coordinate systems is very powerful (1 mate replaces 3 standard mates). Moreover, using coordinate systems in mate references, is quick and extremely easy.

That being said, creating coordinate systems is a time consuming process. If I could pattern coordinate systems (especially as a sketch driven or pattern driven pattern), I can create a lot of "anchors" for mate references in a fraction of the time that I spend right now.

The time savings would be absolutely outstanding - 90-99%!!!

Please Vote and encourage your colleagues to read and vote!

The bottom line is: SOLIDWORKS listens to you! Tell SOLIDWORKS what you want!

Alin Vargatu - I know this is an old post but one thing that would really save me a lot of time trouble shooting older models..

When you edit a sketch and go to Sketch Relations and you select a line or a point and we see this how cool would it be for it to read anything other then On Edge Of What - a cliff, a lake ???? - It would be much better if it would read "On Edge - Sketch2 / Line3 / 74101-011